Chapters & Groups

The MCAA has promoted the creation of Chapters in different geographic regions as a way of facilitating communication with its members and engaging them in the development of the association. MCAA Chapters are established to:

Encourage local networking and establish mutually-beneficial relationships between the MCAA and its alumni within a defined georgaphic zone;

Initiate activities that add value to the Alumni network and input to the general body;

Recruit, attract, support and facilitate connections between MC fellows and alumni;

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People in professional and specialised careers, such as researchers in academia or industry are more likely to delay family planning. Thus, professional development is often in conflict with the desire for personal plans including family planning and parenthood.

Who is the webinar for? Everyone looking to balance home and professional life.

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Many of the global challenges we face today, including infectious diseases, pollution, global warming, are complex and require international cooperation. Science diplomacy aims at bridging the gap between science and politics in order to find sustainable solutions in highly politicized and culturally sensitive contexts. If you want to hear more about how science and politics can influence each other, join us for an exciting webinar featuring Marta Agostinho, coordinator of EU-LIFE and Claire Mays Executive Director of InsSciDE on the 5th of June at 5pm (CEST).

Jun 05 2020

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The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa, Tuscany, Italy on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment for students (from Master students to PhD students), Post-Docs, early

Jun 08 to 12 2020, (All day) - (All day)

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This webinar will introduce the different steps of Innovation related to the Deeptech scheme that describes the transition from academic lab to the applications for the society. This scheme will be compared with the journey of PhDs who live an immersive experience in this ecosytem of innovation. Master and PhD students interested in their future transition outside academia can be concerned by this webinar, especially if they are curious to gather more information about the transition from basic research to Startup or Valorization.

It will be conducted by Marc Chevalier. He is a Startup Program Manager in the Tech Transfer Office of the Institut Pasteur, Paris.

This webinar will focus on entrepreneurship in the context of life sciences, and will touch upon translation, the relevance of IP, financing and building a company bottom-up. The speaker will focus more on sharing his experiences rather than a text-book approach in explaining concepts.

It will be conducted by Vignesh Janakiraman. He is an experienced biotechnology professional, presently working with the Roullier group on expanding their business internationally.

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